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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Igor Stravinsky

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I never understood the need for a “live” audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
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Audience Death Live Music Need Performance Understand
What force is more potent than love?
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Force Love One Liner Strong
In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?
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Creation Force Love Order Reproduction
All music is nothing more than a succession of impulses that converge towards a definite point of repose.
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Definite Music Point Succession
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.
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Alone Consciousness Music Order Perfection Regulation State
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Feeling Life Music Myself Understand
Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.
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Average Genius Steal
Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also.
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Difference Enough Listening Music
Music’s exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
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Flow Music Order Structure Time
Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.
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Possible Right Save Silence Wrong
A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Cultural Familiar Unknown
Good composers don’t borrow, they steal.
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Borrow One Liner Steal
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Animal Children Life Music Myself Symphony Understand
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Freedom Impose Oneself Precision Service
The more controlled, limited and tormented art is, the freer it is.
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Art Control Freedom Limitation
My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.
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Childhood Connection Hell Moments Myself Period

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